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More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 118

"Man of mine, man of mine, Have you seen a girl, With a willy-willy wag, and a long-tailed bag, Who's stole my money, all I had?"

Who acts: Man, Witch · What happens: see, tail, steal, have · To what, where: girl, tailed bag

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Man, Witch), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

punctnsubjcasenmodpunctconjcasenmodpunctauxnsubjdetobjpunctcasedetamodpunctamodoblpunctccdetcompoundpunctamodappospunctnsubjaux:passacl:relclnmod:possobjpunctadvmodnsubjparataxispunctpunctroot"PUNCTManNOUNofADPminePRON,PUNCTmanNOUNofADPminePRON,PUNCTHaveAUXyouPRONseenVERBaDETgirlNOUN,PUNCTWithADPaDETwillyADJ-PUNCTwillyADJwagNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJaDETlongADJ-PUNCTtailedVERBbagNOUN,PUNCTWhoPRON'sAUXstoleVERBmyPRONmoneyNOUN,PUNCTallDETIPRONhadVERB?PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1""PUNCT_2 Manpunct
2ManmanNOUNNumber=Sing12 seennsubj
3ofofADP_4 minecase
4minemyPRONNumber=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs2 Mannmod
5,,PUNCT_6 manpunct
6manmanNOUNNumber=Sing2 Manconj
7ofofADP_8 minecase
8minemyPRONNumber=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs6 mannmod
9,,PUNCT_2 Manpunct
10HavehaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin12 seenaux
11youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs12 seennsubj
12seenseeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Partrootroot
13aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art14 girldet
14girlgirlNOUNNumber=Sing12 seenobj
15,,PUNCT_21 wagpunct
16WithwithADP_21 wagcase
17aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art21 wagdet
18willywillyADJDegree=Pos21 wagamod
19--PUNCT_18 willypunct
20willywillyADJDegree=Pos21 wagamod
21wagwagNOUNNumber=Sing12 seenobl
22,,PUNCT_28 bagpunct
23andandCCONJ_28 bagcc
24aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art28 bagdet
25longlongADJDegree=Pos27 tailedcompound
26--PUNCT_25 longpunct
27tailedtailVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass28 bagamod
28bagbagNOUNNumber=Sing21 wagappos
29,,PUNCT_32 stolepunct
30WhowhoPRONPronType=Rel32 stolensubj
31'sbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin32 stoleaux:pass
32stolestealVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass28 bagacl:relcl
33mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs34 moneynmod:poss
34moneymoneyNOUNNumber=Sing32 stoleobj
35,,PUNCT_38 hadpunct
36allallDETPronType=Tot38 hadadvmod
37IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs38 hadnsubj
38hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 seenparataxis
39??PUNCT_38 hadpunct
40""PUNCT_12 seenpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1see in a quotepresent · perfectMan of mine and man of minea girlwith a willy willy wagvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus
2tail in a quoteparticiplevn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3steal in a quotepresent · passivea tailed bagvn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary money=Theme
4have in a quotepastWitchvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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